Keep in mind that there are many cases in which fertility drugs can
result in multiple pregnancies, so weigh the risks of becoming pregnant and having a PCOS diagnosis.
The researchers believe that introducing the Belgian policy may result in financial savings for governments through the
reduction in multiple pregnancy rates.
With the placenta (s)
in multiple pregnancies covering a greater proportion of the uterine wall, there is a higher risk of complications that can be dangerous for mom or babies.
The increased risk for gestational
diabetes in a multiples pregnancy appears to be a result of the two placentas increasing the resistance to insulin, increased placental size, and an elevation in placental hormones.
The Center for Loss in Multiple Birth (CLIMB) offers support to parents who have lost
babies in multiple pregnancies, including those who have lost all babies in the pregnancy as well as those who have lost one twin.
The pregnancy hormone levels, responsible for most of the signs, are even
higher in a multiple pregnancy while the elevation of blood volume is also greater to provide oxygen and nutrients to multiple fetuses.
Says founder Nancy Bowers, «There are so many factors that we have no control
over in a multiple pregnancy, so we focus on the ones that we do have control over and turn these into positives.»
For this reason, I always offer women with twin pregnancies who begin care early a Nuchal Translucency Screen which is a much better screening test for chromosome
disorders in a multiple pregnancy.
However, although there was a significant
increase in multiple pregnancies in NSW between 1994 and 2002 (1.4 % to 1.7 % of all pregnancies, p < 0.001), there was no significant change in the proportion of postpartum hemorrhages among multiple pregnancies.
«Our next step is to perform a health - economic analysis to show that the reduction
in multiple pregnancy rates results does indeed result in a financial benefit for the government, so that the refunding of six cycles is still a responsible policy,» said Professor Thomas D'Hooghe, last author of the paper and head of the Leuven University Fertility Center.
This report clearly explains the way our current system steers patients to treatments that too often
result in multiple pregnancy; and it suggests a number of ways to make needed changes.»
• Dr. Mark Evans is famous, as it were, for his proficiency in «fetal reductions,» which means getting rid of the «extras»
in multiple pregnancies.
However,
in multiple pregnancies, it is most commonly caused by overcrowding in the uterus.
In multiple pregnancies, however, preterm labor is often the result of overcrowding inside the uterus.
CHRISTINE STEWART - FITZGERALD: Well, so thirty percent of all IVF treatments, I mean, on average are resulting in multiple pregnancies
GD is common
in multiple pregnancies, but never did develop in mine.
The fact is that
in a multiple pregnancy, each trimester presents its own weighty challenges.
Because there are currently no precise methods for selecting viable embryos, couples typically choose to implant multiple blastocysts to enhance their chances of conceiving, which may also result
in multiple pregnancies.